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| Contentid | 6451 |
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| Title | News Article: So Much Paperwork, So Little Time to Teach |
| Body | From http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/education/04Education.html?_r=1&oref=slogin So Much Paperwork, So Little Time to Teach By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN July 4, 2007 Allison Rabenau celebrated an inauspicious milestone on the otherwise unremarkable day of Oct. 18, 2004. Six weeks into her first year as a teacher, she finally taught a class. Ms. Rabenau had left a long career as a stage manager in the commercial theater to learn how to teach English as a second language to immigrant children in New York’s public schools. The only problem, she quickly discovered, was that the avalanche of paperwork and other assignments meant she actually got to teach only sporadically. In a perfect, if dispiriting bit of symmetry, her initial year at Public School 123 in Harlem ended the same way it began. Ms. Rabenau lost the last six weeks of the spring term to prepare, administer, then score a standardized test for English fluency. Essentially, her teaching year, and her students’ learning year, had run only from mid-October to mid-April, with numerous interruptions even then. During the time when the students were entitled to instruction in English, they were sitting in other courses that they may or may not have understood. Read the entire article at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/education/04Education.html?_r=1&oref=slogin . |
| Source | New York Times |
| Inputdate | 2007-07-08 06:46:05 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2007-07-08 06:46:05 |
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| Publishdate | 2007-07-09 00:00:00 |
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